May
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Events
May
19
1445
– John II of Castile defeats the Infantes
of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo.
1499 – Catherine of Aragon is married by
proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales.
Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets
sail on his second voyage to North America
with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's
two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during
his first voyage).
1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry
VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery,
treason, and incest.
1542 – Prome Kingdom falls to Toungoo Dynasty.
1568 – Queen Elizabeth I of England orders
the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
1643 – Thirty Years' War: French forces
under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat
Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi,
marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant
land power.
1649 – An Act of Parliament declaring England
a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament.
England would be a republic for the next
eleven years.
1749 – King George II of Great Britain grants
the Ohio Company a charter of land around
the forks of the Ohio River.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: A Continental
Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of
The Cedars.
1780 – New England's Dark Day: A combination
of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes
complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada
and the New England area of the United States
at 10:30 A.M.
1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion
of Honour.
1828 – U.S. President John Quincy Adams
signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting
wool manufacturers in the United States.
1845 – Captain Sir John Franklin and his
ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from
Greenhithe, England.
1848 – Mexican-American War: Mexico ratifies
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending
the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah
and parts of four other modern-day U.S.
states to the United States for US$15 million.
1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of
Spotsylvania Court House ends.
1897 – Oscar Wilde is released from Reading
Gaol Prison.
1911 – Parks Canada, the world's first national
park service, is established as the Dominion
Parks Branch under the Department of the
Interior.
1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun
on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating
what is later termed the Turkish War of
Independence.
1921 – The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency
Quota Act establishing national quotas on
immigration.
1922 – The Young Pioneer organization of
the Soviet Union is established.
1934 – Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer
a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev
as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
1943 – World War II: British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin
D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as
the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day").
It would later be delayed over a month due
to bad weather.
1950 – A barge containing munitions destined
for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South
Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
1959 – The North Vietnamese Army establishes
Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine
how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam;
the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
1961 – Venera program: Venera 1 becomes
the first man-made object to fly-by another
planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost
contact with Earth a month earlier and did
not send back any data).
1961 – 11 bengali martyrs gave up their
life in a police firing in Silchar Railway
Station, Assam, while demanding state recognition
of bengali language in the Bengali Language
Movement.
1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President
John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square
Garden, New York City. The highlight is
Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy
Birthday".
1971 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched
by the Soviet Union.
1986 – The Firearm Owners Protection Act
is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald
Reagan.
1991 – Croatians vote for independence in
a referendum.
1997 – The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, the most
ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is
established as a result of grassroots efforts.
2001 – Apple Store, the first two Apple
Stores opened in Tysons Corner, Virginia
and the same day in Glendale, California
at Glendale Galleria.
2007 – President of Romania Traian Băsescu
survives an impeachment referendum and returns
to office from suspension.
2010 – The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes
its crackdown on protests by forcing the
surrender of United Front for Democracy
Against Dictatorship leaders.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Calocerus (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Dunstan
Ivo of Kermartin
Joaquina Vedruna de Mas
Maria Bernarda Bütler
Peter Celestine
Pudentiana (Roman Catholic Church)
May 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports
Day (Turkey, Northern Cyprus)
Greek Genocide Remembrance Day (Greece)
Hồ Chí Minh's Birthday (Vietnam)
Malcolm X Day (United States of America)
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